Next season's kit.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I wouldn’t mind a season with claret shorts for the home kit, like the 83-84 masterpiece. And I’d love something like the away kit from that year too.

[algy]

I'm going to go against the grain and say that I fancy a non-traditional kit this coming season. I don't mind the odd one as a bit of a palette cleanser, and think it'd be the ideal time to have one as ...

2023/24 and 2024/25, the 150th anniversary, should be a celebration of Aston Villa however. Home kit as replicas of the double winning season (23/24) and 1980/81 season (24/25), aways as replicas of the 1957 away (23/24) and European cup winning away (24/25). Third kits taken from our back catalogue of early home shirts, but for my money the black one with a red lion & the one that looks like a Friesian cow but red & white.

[Axl Rose]

If traditional means Boring, I want boring.

But traditional is all black, or all Red, or black and white hoops, or claret and blue halfs or quarters or any of the above...

Traditional is claret shirt, with blue sleeves. The fact that it took a while to establish the tradition and that we have occasionally messed about with it since don't alter that. Any variation from the theme now would be an abomination.

The Luke shirts were fucking dreadful.

I think you'll be in a minority with that take.

There's at least two of us, and this is not a democracy.

Three.

How about the Luke away shirt?

[chrisw1]

It's not as if we're voting on it's return. But it was certainly a very popuar kit.

Luke did a very clever marketing job on that kit. There were some supporters who would have died in a ditch defending it.

Personally I wouldn't have stood in a ditch, but I thought it was a nice kit.

[chrisw1]

I'm going to go against the grain and say that I fancy a non-traditional kit this coming season. I don't mind the odd one as a bit of a palette cleanser, and think it'd be the ideal time to have one as ...

2023/24 and 2024/25, the 150th anniversary, should be a celebration of Aston Villa however. Home kit as replicas of the double winning season (23/24) and 1980/81 season (24/25), aways as replicas of the 1957 away (23/24) and European cup winning away (24/25). Third kits taken from our back catalogue of early home shirts, but for my money the black one with a red lion & the one that looks like a Friesian cow but red & white.

This I could get behind.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The black one with the red lion is brilliant....and my son and I already have one!
Which is nice!

[cdbearsfan]

I think on some of the less important threads, such as those discussing politics or the imminent nuclear apocalypse set to destroy us all, a bit of debate is to be welcomed.

However, for something as important as next season's desired costume, we really need to root out the evildoers and purify the thread. I would urge our esteemed moderators to look at the lists which I have helpfully compiled, below.

I'm not suggesting that the posters in the degenerates list should all be banned. That said, I'm not suggesting that they shouldn't be banned, either.

Decent, upstanding pillars of the community

cdbearsfan
dave.woodhall
Sexual Ealing
ChicagoLion
Chris Harte
Deano's Mullet
Villan82

Wrong 'uns, bounders and ne'er-do-wells

chrisw
algy
VILLA MOLE
nigel
Brazilian Villain
edgysatsuma89

Now, I don't want to have to add to the list of debauchees above. So please can posters tread carefully before expressing any form of approval for yoghurt adverts, the Hodge monstrosity or the Hearts nonsense we wore a few years ago in the Second Division.

Hopefully this will create a more pleasant forum experience for the decent folk among us.

[chrisw1]

Laugh out loud

[Deano's Mullet]

Some horrible ones mocked up on social media newspaper sites today. A claret and blue quarters shirt. Ugh.

[chrisw1]

Some horrible ones mocked up on social media newspaper sites today. A claret and blue quarters shirt. Ugh.

That's traditional - see the 1892-93, surely we all loved that one?

<no i'm not a monster, of course I don't want a quarters shirt>

[eamonn]

Some horrible ones mocked up on social media newspaper sites today. A claret and blue quarters shirt. Ugh.

It's another one of dem 'orrible ones, Steve Bruce was heard to say as he looked back in anger.

[Rotterdam]

I wouldn’t mind a season with claret shorts for the home kit, like the 83-84 masterpiece. And I’d love something like the away kit from that year too.

I echo the above.

[cdbearsfan]

You two are hovering dangerously close to the wrong 'uns list.

[Drummond]

I think for the 150 year anniversary we should go for a replica of the original kit for a year before reverting to Claret Body, Light Blue Sleeves, White shorts and Light Blue socks.

Not sure how accurate this Historical Kits site is, but there's some interesting stuff and background.

I had thought the early black shirt with lion rampant slap bang in the middle, white short and black socks would be nice as an away kit, until I read it....

[Villan82]

I didn't particularly like the Luke kit and, I actually believe we have had far too many novelty kits over the years. One per decade would be about right but we tend to have one every 4-5 seasons on average. I you look at the 1980s we basically didn't play in a traditional villa kit between 1983 and 1989!  Going back 35 odd years, as an example of non-traditional kits: 1987-89 (yuck), 1993-95 (stripes), 1999-2000 (stripes), 2001-2002 (awful, NTL, purple body home kit, yuck), a few more subtle non-traditional kits up to 2017 when we had the Luke kit.

I just want us in claret body, blue sleeves, white shots and blue/claret socks. I don't think other clubs dick around with their identity as much as we have over the past 35 years.